Christina Puhacz
Artistic Director and Founder
I am Christina Puhacz, the founder of Leading Note Music and a RCM certified piano teacher with 20 years of teaching experience, who returned to piano teaching in 2009. I left a 20 plus years career in the business world in late 2006 in order to explore other interests, including some that were entrepreneurial. Prior to acquiring my engineering degree at the University of Waterloo (B. A. Sc. in Systems Design Engineering 1987) I was a piano teacher with many students and, during the course of my engineer
In 2010, I successfully competed in RCM's own music festival winning a bronze. My musical journey has been a continuous one throughout my life. Notably, I studied with Dr. Michael Esch , a former collaborator with the Canadian Sinfonietta Chamber Players. Recently, he has been awarded the Steinway Top Teacher Award. Occasionally, I write music and from time-to-time, some of my pieces have been played by my piano students and heard by the attendees at my piano recitals and salons.
My interest in music seems to have always been there. I can’t pinpoint one particular event that turned me on to music but I do know that I have always been surrounded by family members with a strong interest in music whether it be vocal singing or other instruments like the piano. Music has brought nothing but positive things to my life. The most positive of these has been the wonderful students and families I have crossed paths with while teaching piano lessons.